Yeah, it really works. I have a minimal but functional command-line Ubuntu system running on my Zaurus SL-C3100.

Not much more to say really, it's much like the Fedora 8 system. One big difference maybe is that Firedrake spits much more errors during first boot, compared to the Werewolf.

There's a lot left to tweak of course, but a full-blown Ubuntu is on it's way. This is really cool, having the same OS running on my desktop and on the much smaller Zaurus. This proofs that the Zaurus is the ultimate mini-laptop.

Anyway, the root filesystem is currently 88Mb, and as I said, it's just a minimal system. I don't have much hosting space left, so I guess you just have to believe me that it's working.

I won't be able to upload the image, unless someone has some hosting space left to donate of course, then I could upload the image. No problem. Use the "Contact Me" from the menu to drop me a line.

I already promised a few of you a while back to upload the patches used in the Android image.

For those of you using the OpenEmbedded build system I made it extra easy. Just download and extract the archive with patches into the OpenEmbedded directory structure, setup your system to use the linux-rp-2.6.23-r32 kernel and (re)build the kernel by issuing the bitbake -c rebuild linux-rp command.

If you haven't setup your OpenEmbedded build system yet, but would like to, you can checkout the Poky development system by running svn co http://svn.o-hand.com/repos/poky/trunk poky. Setup the system by following the README file. After that, extract the archive with patches into the OpenEmbedded directory structure, and build the kernel.

I included the kernel configurations I used for both the Zaurus Spitz and Akita devices.

For those of you adventurers using a different build system (why would you) or for those of you who just need the code for the panning support in the pxa2xx framebuffer code, replace the pxafb.c file from the vanilla kernel with the file here and build your kernel.

Browsing the Net I recently came across the fedora arm wiki. Googling a bit further, I couldn't find anyone running fedora on the Zaurus. So I investigated the project a bit, and started some experiments in qemu.

This was a few days ago, and now I have fedora 8 (Werewolf) running on my Zaurus SL-C3100 natively. Quite nice actually. I'm using my Poky 2.6.23 kernel and the base root file system with some extras from the huge repository.

So with fedora 8 another choice can be added to the long list of possible Operating Systems that can be used by the Zaurus community.

Not bad at all!

UPDATE: Some of you asked me if I would be willing to share the image so it can be downloaded here. Since I'm running out of hosting space, that's currently not possible. I'm trying to find someone who's willing to donate some space

I finally uploaded the Akita image for the latest version of Android. For installation instructions see the link in the menu on the left. Unfortunately I had to replace the previous M3-RC37 release because of lack of disk space.

Please report any problems, and of course any reports on successful installation are welcome as well ;-)

I finally took some time today to build an Android image for the Zaurus SL-C1000 (Akita). But, I hate to bring the news to you, when I was ready to test it, I found out I lost my SD card. I don't know where I left it, but it's gone. Bummer!!

It's too late now, I have to leave it for later. Sorry to keep you all waiting so long. I'll get me a new card tomorrow, do the testing, and hope to get the image up as soon as possible.

New Android image is uploaded (android-root.tar.gz). Same installation instructions apply, so please see the instructions in the previous post. Strange thing for me when testing the image was after startup the screen stays black. When pressing any key the boot process continues. I don't know why this is. When time permits I'll try to fix this.

As mentioned in my previous post, some of you reported having problems using my Android M5-RC14 image. I've looked into it, and although I still don't know what the problem was, I have a working version again.

I'm currently unable to upload a new version, so it will have to wait until tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Flashing starts, and you are asked if you want to flash the kernel, if you want the microdrive to be formatted and if you want the root filesystem to be installed.Accept all questions answering them with y

After flashing is complete, the machine is rebooted. Login with root and type /start to start Android.Have fun, and let me know if you like it ;-)